Newton Whiting Gilbert | |
Term Start1: | March 4, 1905 |
Term End1: | November 6, 1906 |
Preceded1: | James M. Robinson |
Succeeded1: | Clarence C. Gilhams |
Office2: | Philippine Secretary of Public Instruction |
Term Start2: | March 1, 1909 |
Term End2: | December 1, 1913 |
Appointer2: | William Cameron Forbes |
Predecessor2: | William Morgan Shuster |
Successor2: | Henderson S. Martin |
Office3: | Acting Governor-General of the Philippines |
Term Start3: | September 1, 1913 |
Term End3: | October 6, 1913 |
Predecessor3: | William Castle, Jr. |
Successor3: | Joseph Grew |
Office4: | Vice Governor-General of the Philippines |
Term Start4: | February 14, 1910 |
Term End4: | November 30, 1913 |
Predecessor4: | William Cameron Forbes |
Successor4: | Henderson S. Martin |
Office5: | 25th Lieutenant Governor of Indiana |
Term Start5: | January 11, 1901 |
Term End5: | January 14, 1905 |
Governor5: | Winfield T. Durbin |
Predecessor5: | William S. Haggard |
Successor5: | Hugh Thomas Miller |
State: | Indiana |
District: | 12th |
Office6: | Member of the Indiana Senate |
Term6: | 1896-1900 |
Birth Date: | May 24, 1862 |
Birth Place: | Worthington, Ohio, U.S. |
Death Date: | July 5, 1939 (aged 77) |
Death Place: | Santa Ana, California, U.S. |
Restingplace: | Circle Hill Cemetery, Angola, Indiana |
Party: | Republican Party |
Newton Whiting Gilbert (May 24, 1862 – July 5, 1939) was an American politician from Indiana.
He was the 25th lieutenant governor of Indiana, a member of the Indiana State Senate, a representative in the United States House of Representatives, and an acting governor-general of the Philippines from September 1, 1913, to October 6, 1913.[1] He served on the Philippine Commission, the appointed upper house of the Philippine Legislature of the American colonial Insular Government of the Philippines.